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Sep 21, 2026
Getting Rid of Waste on the Farm
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0:47Diego FooterHOST
Is there anything at all in that book, and I know it's a very rich book in terms of what's in it, but what's the one thing over the last 10 years that really stands out? Is it what you just said? Is it lead with the customer, work back from there?

Ben HartmanGUEST
Oh, I would say that in our case, that's number one is to keep that focus on the relationship with the customer.

Ben HartmanGUEST
We have one word for waste in English, just waste, and we think of a waste as something that...

Ben HartmanGUEST
Something we're throwing in a trash can or something we're done using, but waste is a nuanced concept for the Japanese.
Ben Hartman: How to Stay in Business 20 Years by Doing Less, Better (CC60)
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Ben HartmanGUEST
And he took a team of researchers over to Toyota a couple decades ago and really wrote the source book on lean production.

Ben HartmanGUEST
And he said, and he's consulted very widely about for the government and large companies.
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#221: Ben Hartman on Morphogen's Comeback, Nick Walker's Equity, and the 10g Tyrosine Return
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0:36MikeHOST
So, um, where do you want to start with the rebrand or do you want to like dig right into formulas? Yeah.

Ben HartmanGUEST
So, you know, we did this a few years ago through probably almost four years ago now.

Ben HartmanGUEST
And, uh, To put it very concisely, we didn't have all the right players on the board and employees, contractors, partners with different things.

Ben HartmanGUEST
And the way that that rebrand went just wasn't – it didn't land the way that we expected it to land.

Ben HartmanGUEST
It was a great point of learning for me as a business owner, as somebody in my own journey of learning how to run a company.
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61:38MikeHOST
How did this even happen? Yeah.